Foreword to the special issue on pattern recognition and image analysis

Excerpt

The papers included in this special issue provide a snapshot of image analysis and pattern recognition research today. They are the very best of the Seventh Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2015), held on 17–19 June, 2015, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The IbPRIA is an international conference co-organised by the Spanish AERFAI and Portuguese APRP chapters of the IAPR International Association for Pattern Recognition. IbPRIA 2015 attracted 141 papers from 36 different countries. After the reviewing process, 83 papers were accepted for presentation in the conference. A selection of the best scored and presented at the conference was invited to submit to this special issue a substantially extended and revised version of the conference paper, and the resulting papers were sent out for full review. The process, including required revisions, was in accordance with the standing editorial policy of Neural Computing and Applications, resulting in the final versions of the 10 papers accepted and appearing in this special issue. …